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Ordinary Injustice - by Amy Bach (Paperback)
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- "A groundbreaking book . . . revealing the systemic, everyday problems in our courts that must be addressed if justice is truly to be served.
- About the Author: Amy Bach, a member of the New York bar, has written on law for The Nation, The American Lawyer, and New York magazine, among other publications.
- 320 Pages
- Political Science, Law Enforcement
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"A groundbreaking book . . . revealing the systemic, everyday problems in our courts that must be addressed if justice is truly to be served."--Doris Kearns Goodwin
Attorney and journalist Amy Bach spent eight years investigating the widespread courtroom failures that each day upend lives across America. What she found was an assembly-line approach to justice: a system that rewards mediocre advocacy, bypasses due process, and shortchanges both defendants and victims to keep the court calendar moving. Here is the public defender who pleads most of his clients guilty with scant knowledge about their circumstances; the judge who sets outrageous bail for negligible crimes; the prosecutor who habitually declines to pursue significant cases; the court that works together to achieve a wrongful conviction. Going beyond the usual explanations of bad apples and meager funding, Ordinary Injustice reveals a clubby legal culture of compromise, and shows the tragic consequences that result when communities mistake the rules that lawyers play by for the rule of law. It is time, Bach argues, to institute a new method of checks and balances that will make injustice visible--the first and necessary step to reform.About the Author
Amy Bach, a member of the New York bar, has written on law for The Nation, The American Lawyer, and New York magazine, among other publications. For her work in progress on Ordinary Injustice, Bach received a Soros Media Fellowship, a special J. Anthony Lukas citation, and a Radcliffe Fellowship. She lives in Rochester, New York, where she taught legal studies at the University of Rochester.
Dimensions (Overall): 7.96 Inches (H) x 5.16 Inches (W) x .87 Inches (D)
Weight: .6 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 320
Genre: Political Science
Sub-Genre: Law Enforcement
Publisher: Picador USA
Format: Paperback
Author: Amy Bach
Language: English
Street Date: August 3, 2010
TCIN: 77274327
UPC: 9780805092271
Item Number (DPCI): 247-54-2269
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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